Abstract
Writing on Italy and postcolonialism from whatever starting point of view or perspective necessarily entails a very simple and obvious—though not always fully conscious—enunciation: Italy is a postcolonial country like, for example, England, France, Algeria, and Argentina. This implicit or explicit enunciation ought to be supported by other specific epistemological assumptions, which in turn could be either openly enunciated or kept ambiguously hidden in the “white spaces” of the texts (to use Althusser’s famous phrase). Although it is as yet hard to talk about anything like Italian postcolonial studies (with regard exclusively to the national intellectual landscape), it is now not difficult to find a highly stimulating body of writings which might constitute such a field, just because they interrogate the national audience explicitly or implicitly from what it seems to me rather apparent postcolonial assumptions.1
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Mellino, M. (2012). De-Provincializing Italy. In: Lombardi-Diop, C., Romeo, C. (eds) Postcolonial Italy. Italian and Italian American Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137281463_6
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